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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 18, 2000
Filed:
Jan. 10, 1994
Sundram Krishnamurthy, Penfield, NY (US);
Michael William Crawley, Herts, GB;
David Scott Bailey, Rochester, NY (US);
John Lawrence Pawlak, Rochester, NY (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
A photographic element contains at least one photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith a 5-pyrazolone photographic coupler represented by the formula: ##STR1## wherein substituents X.sub.1, X.sub.2, Y, G.sub.1, G.sub.2, G.sub.3, Z, and R.sub.1 may be as specified in the specification; a, b, and c are individually integers form 0 to 3 provided that 'a' cannot be an integer which, combined with the selection of X.sub.1 and X.sub.2, allows the number of chloride substituents on the ring containing G.sub.1 to exceed 3; and the sum of the Hammett's sigma values for X.sub.1, X.sub.2, Y, G.sub.1, G.sub.2, and G.sub.3 is at least 1.3.